Want to Play God of War III Early? Come to our GDC San Francisco Meetup!

Earlier today, we sent this God of War III invite out to media, industry luminaries, heads of state, space marines, surviving Greek and Roman gods, and select reality TV show stars (nobody from celebrity rehab shows, thankyouverymuch).

Assuming you don’t fit into one of those categories, we did what we always do here at PlayStation.Blog: score extra tickets for you community members. We’ve got a couple HUNDRED tickets to get some of our close, personal friends (this means *you*) into this super-exclusive event, where you’ll get to go hands-on with the final, polished version of God of War III, enjoy our legendary hospitality, and watch a Really-Awesome-Band-That-I-Can’t-Name-Yet perform.

What do you need to do? Well – just show up.

Based on previous meet-ups we’ve held, we know some of you will get there early. For this event – we’re expecting it. Heck, we’re practically demanding it!

While the hands-on event doesn’t start until 7pm – we’re setting up a Community-Only pre-event party that goes on all day. We’ll have free food from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. (Tacos of the Gods, anyone?), limited edition schwag giveaways, free wi-fi (we expect you to Tweet!), the chance to put yourself on the God of War III box, autographs with the developers and CHAOS…in the form of games, of course. We’ve got some really good stuff planned, so take the day off, make the drive from LA/Vegas/St. Louis, and get there early!

The hands-on event goes from 7-10pm on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at the SF Concourse Exhibition Center. The pre-party meet-up begins at noon (you’ll see our tent in venue’s parking lot). Directions here. Don’t even think of strolling up at 6.30pm – you ain’t getting in!

Keep in mind that you must be 21 or older to get into evening hands-on event, but anyone 18+ (or with their parent/guardian) can come to the all-day meetup. ID *will* be checked!

Parking is rough in the area, so try to take BART or Caltrain – both very close to venue.

Once you’re in, you’re in — no ins and outs (don’t worry, we will have bathrooms). Unless of course you don’t want to stick around for the amazingly awesome hands-on event at 7pm. Then you’re free to leave at will…but you’re making a HUGE mistake!

theres your answer as to where the update is, i was signed in as a different name, logged out and resigned on and my name is right, so my guess is they are experiencing technical difficulties with the blog server and working on fixing it
be patient and please dont whine and cry like most did when the ps3 clock was lil under the weather. things always work out!

there’s a city called Washington, DC.
it’s a nice city… pretty buildings… trees… used to have a panda…
but this city is sad, because no one ever goes there for anything other then quick stops on a tour or for stuffy political mumbo jumbo.

would you help this city feel love?

all it takes is one good early gameplay of a highly anticipated game. heck, even just one person, who can tell others.

I’m going to be 20 a couple of days before, to bad not 21. So I wonder what I’d be missing if I couldn’t stay. Should I RSVP even though I’m not 21? It would suck if the hands on thing is a crowd of 4 because most weren’t 21+

Well you can come to the meet-up, which will have lots of cool stuff. I say RSVP and come early. You\’ll get the autographs, the pictures, the raffles, the fun – just not the final GoWIII hands-on time.

Nothing ever happens in NYC? You should try moline , illinois , population : 40,000 max . farm implement capitol of the world ( everybody in unison now ) Ooooooh!!! on a more relevant note , its nice to see that my ps3 can once again log into the blog (say that 10 times quickly : “log into the blog “) much thanx to the staff responsible . although javascript still needs to be disabled . but thats no biggie.

why never to tampa fl :( there r gamers out here u know also on the music for gow 3 ulitmate is it through the psn store or an other site? and if so an other site will there be needin to sign up or something?

DAMMIT!!! I would have definitely gone if I could, but theres no way :(. I went to the MAG one here in Vegas, but being a HUGE fan of GOW, I would have loved to attend this one as well and play GOW3 before it comes out, oh well at least the game isnt far off anymore.

I have the same question as gdogg666 since I preordered the Ultimate Edition. Personally I hope the download is through PSN but I don’t mind downloading the album from Amazon since I already have a account. I hope it’s not from itunes because i really really hate anything Apple related…

Son of a biscuit, yet again another event that I cant go to where I know people are gonna be getting free copies of my most anticipated game ever, how come no texas love? forget all the new york crybabies, texas is practically ignored, I live in dallas and still cant get any sony love, hook me up guys!!